Academy Slave Instructor

62 – Quit

Quit

Elbert moved quickly on his feet.

He informed the instructors around him of the match, and even made it a fait accompli by insinuating it to the hagwon students during lectures.

Seeing the rumors that spread quickly and the academy students who heard from somewhere and ask if he wants to compete with the real Rye, Albert feels better.

Now the shallow instructor couldn’t get out.

All that remains is to stomp him in a match and prove who is the better man.

I thought so.

That is until Bright, the deputy principal, came to visit.

“Did you say you were going to compete with Instructor Rai?”

Bright, who came to the lab, said softly while drinking the tea that Albert had served.

Elbert is well aware that he hates Rye.

No, no matter how ignorant you are, there is no way you don’t know that fact. Everyone knows that Bright, always full of dignity, sees Rai, her eyes roll over and she chases after her.

“Yes, Vice President. I will crush that sinister instructor.”

“……”

I thought he would be happy, so he replied in a different, stronger tone than usual, but Bright silently glanced at him and put the glass down.

In a strange mood, Elbert reflects on what he just said.

Anyway, Bright, who values dignity, seemed to be bothered by the strong tone of the answer.

“hahahaha, I don’t like the expression of crushing it, right? No matter how joking, my expression was too much.”

I laugh and say it like it’s not a big deal, but Bright still looks at Albert in silence.

After thinking for a moment, Bright puts her glass down and opens her mouth.

“Can you stop the match?”

“……”

This time, Albert was at a loss for words. When another word comes out of Bright’s mouth, who was sure to praise him for doing well, he blinks in embarrassment.

“Ah! You’re afraid that if the game overheats, it will adversely affect the academy students. Don’t worry. It’s just a simple game. Don’t you know me? No matter what Instructor Lai does, I’ll finish it well.”

Thinking that Bright, who cares about the academy students, is worried about spoiling the atmosphere at the academy, Elbert replied confidently.

And he notices that Bright’s expression doesn’t change at all.

“……”

“Why are you stopping me?”

After a long silence, Elbert asks with a stiff expression.

“I don’t want to lose Instructor Albert.”

“……That bastard… No, who’s behind Instructor Rai?”

“Well, I don’t know that. But Lecturer Albert didn’t understand me.”

Bright exhaled a small breath, like a sigh, choosing her words for a moment before opening her mouth again.

“I care about the academy students. Regardless of whether they have good or bad grades and have personality problems, they are all my academy students and I want them to grow up on the right path.”

Bright’s love for academy students is a fact known to all instructors.

He always puts the academy students first.

“Instructors are necessary for academy students to grow. That’s why I value instructors as well.”

Instructors are also important for academy students. In order to set an example for academy students and give good education, Bright requires dignity and competence from instructors.

Everyone knows.

Isn’t that why whenever Rai does something rude, her eyes roll back and she scolds her?

If he scolds such a frivolous human being, Bright, who should of course cheer him up, is asking him not to play.

“I’m well aware that Lecturer Albert sees the academy as just a passing point for the future. I’m well aware that the principal and I are hoping for a letter of recommendation.”

“No, Vice President, I…”

“It’s okay. You don’t have to make excuses. There aren’t a lot of instructors with that tendency these days. Times have changed.”

Maybe it’s complicated to say that, but Bright smiles bitterly and takes a sip of the tea.

In the quiet room, the sound of him putting down the teacup can be heard clearly.

“I don’t care. Instructors also have their lives. All you have to do is to have a good influence on the academy students while teaching. And Lecturer Albert is giving good lectures.”

“Thank you…”

Confused about whether he’s scolding or praising, Elbert quietly says he’s grateful and looks at Bright.

Bright, who was making a disgusted expression as if he had something caught in his mouth, slowly raised his gaze and met Elbert’s eyes.

“Instructor Albert has a lot of pride. You can’t stand being humiliated in public by someone you think is nothing.”

“……”

Elbert now understands why Bright kept talking back.

I’m saying it backwards, but in the end you’ll lose the game, so don’t be embarrassed and quit.

And that actually made his ego even more crumpled.

“Are you saying I… Lose?”

“Yes, it is.”

At Bright’s resolute words, Albert is dumbfounded and laughs openly. The fact that his normally hidden nature came out shows how angry he was.

Despite his rude behavior, Bright calmly continues his words.

“They decided to compete with Instructor Rai in magic circles. Two cycles, too.”

Magic circles are one of the ways mages have competed with each other since a long time ago. If you take turns creating a magic circle and destroying it within the time, you get 1 point.

It’s good for evaluating a wizard’s overall abilities, as it evaluates everything from knowledge to magical power and magic usage.

A cycle is a cycle in which mana is turned once, and it usually means a time of about 4 to 5 seconds.

A person who creates a magic circle must create a magic circle that works within a few cycles, so two cycles must complete the magic circle within 10 seconds.

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Of course, the lower the cycle, the more skillful wizards have an overwhelming advantage.

This is because no matter how much knowledge you have, you need comprehensive magical abilities to activate it in a short time.

“Right now, public opinion is not good. Instructor Albert, who is a pure wizard, challenged Instructor Rai, who appears to be a knight, to a magic match.”

A pure mage challenged a relatively weak knight with magic.

I don’t even have to think about how petty this is.

However, those who found it difficult to say that they were mean to the person concerned only talked about other things such as looking forward to the match in front of Elbert.

Elbert, whose normal thinking is already difficult due to anger, did not listen to the words of the people cheering him on behind the scenes.

“That’s because he keeps dazzling the academy students with his magic. This is a warning. Isn’t he having a bad influence on the academy students with crude magic? Of course, this is a problem that needs to be stopped.”

“I see.”

At Albert’s words, Bright thoughtfully stroked his beard and answered.

“I think it’s a pretty good magic experiment. Of course, it’s not good to go too playful, but the academy students are interested and actively trying to learn the magic, so it’s having a good influence.”

“It’s not good for elite academy students to learn such low-level magic.”

Raising her voice as if angry, Elbert looks into Bright’s calm eyes and tries to calm her mind.

“Do you really not know? Or are you pretending not to know?”

“What are you talking about?”

“Instructor Rai is a pure wizard… No, he is a purer wizard than those with the word pure attached.”

At Bright’s words, Albert stared blankly.

His eyes are serious, as if laughing at his thoughts, which he thought were a joke.

At the academy, the person who stuck with Lai the most was Bright.

Every time Rai had an accident, it was Bright who always chased him, chasing after the fleeing Rai and noticing that he had excellent skills, though not all.

“I don’t know who he had as his teacher, but maybe his teacher was a person from the past… Maybe not a person. The word ‘pure’ is now close to 100 years old. Anyway, I learned it from a wizard before purity, and he Instructor Rai must have been raised as a wizard by his master.”

A magician whose word innocence is excluded.

There are quite a few differences between the pure wizards of today and the wizards of the past.

A pure mage handed over magic to the warriors as well as a large part of the battle. What they are currently learning is mainly large-scale magic that takes a long time to activate or auxiliary magic that can help in battle.

However, when magic was the exclusive property of wizards, wizards had to do everything in battle.

The wizard had to defeat the enemies rushing in front of him, and had to play many roles, including magic to defeat strong enemies, assistance, healing, and knowledge to break through dead-end situations, the wizard was no different from an iron man.

Because they had to do so many things, there were few outstanding wizards, and there were those who spent their lives meaninglessly learning magic all their lives and not achieving any results.

“Instructor Rai is a consummate wizard.”

“That can’t be the case? The private tutoring from Rai is like Philia or Aslan…”

“There is no law that requires a wizard to learn only magic. Doesn’t a famous and stupid wizard who likes his fists become a court wizard?”

This is the grandfather of the three three. At the mention of a man so famous that no one in his country would know about it, Elbert shut his mouth.

“Instructor Elbert excels in theory, so it’s no shame if he didn’t know his true skill.”

It was a comforting word, but as soon as he heard it, Elbert’s stomach started to boil.

I experienced several battles, such as subjugating monsters and fighting with neighboring territories, and all were landslide victories. If he had been on the Eastern Front, he would have stood shoulder to shoulder with Edelian.

Elbert’s rage rages when humans who would have been unable to speak had he participated in the battle and ended the era of war.

Unlike his inner thoughts, his expression became very cold, and Bright frowned his eyebrows at his indifferent eyes that didn’t look like he was looking at a living thing.

“You’re worrying for nothing. You’re busy with your research, so could you please go back?”

At the feast, Bright stares at Albert.

If he was the usual guy, he wouldn’t have said this. He thinks he’s hurt his pride, so Bright gets up when he realizes that it’s no use trying to talk him out anymore.

Albert crossed the critical point and thought quietly with a rather calm mind.

A magician of such skill is rather welcome. No matter how much an old man with dementia talks about it, he is the one who wins. No matter what anyone says, this match will go on, and I had to win it to show the idiots who they should respect.

No one could stand in his way.

“Stop it.”

Elbert looks blankly at Selenas, the head of the academy.

I suddenly got a call and told me to quit the match. When the deputy dean and then dean of the academy are stopped, Albert frowns.

“But…”

“But it’s not. I’m not asking for a favor. I’m giving orders as the head of the academy.”

Crying at Selena, who stopped her words with a kind smile, Elbert tried to calm her down and asked.

“Is Instructor Lai so precious? When I try to compete with him, everyone rushes to me and worries.”

“Hmm… I guess that includes me? Yes, Rai-kun is important. I have to go to you.”

Selenas nodded despite the sarcasm and answered.

Her smile, which normally would have been seductive, is now more jarring than any other expression.

“Are you more of a rai instructor than me? You must be well aware of the impact I have on the students and instructors.”

“The vice principal thought of you and stopped you. I’m stopping you for Rai-kun’s sake.”

Laughing at Elbert’s words mixed with her threats, Selenas puts down her pen where she was signing her papers and looks directly at him.

“If you don’t want to listen to me, you can quit being a lecturer.”

“Do you think people will accept this kind of greeting?”

“Shall we try it?”

There is no hesitation in Selenas’ posture, smiling equally menacingly.

Elbert closed his mouth at the words that he brought out with the thought of cutting right away, not bluffing.

“Know the subject. It will add a little more to your life.”

Selena’s grinning at Elbert’s hesitant look at her, she tells him to get out.

Elbert, who came out of his mind, smashes the table in front of his eyes. The secretary of the head of the academy panics and approaches, but freezes at the look in her eyes as if she could kill a person.

Elbert, out of breath, walks weakly out of the building.

Someone recognized him and called him, but he didn’t answer and went to Rai’s house.

“Wahhahahahaha! Is that all? Is that all you can do?”

Rai was fighting the four men she had called for her private lessons. A barrier was placed around it, so there was no damage to the outside, but the garden inside the barrier was a mess.

Zeroa has already passed out and is pinned to the ground, and Abigail and Philia, who look tired of her, respond, but both are hit in the face and fly away, crashing into the barrier.

Before Aslan, who was left alone, could do anything, he was kicked and flew to the two people in front.

It’s rough to say it’s simple sparring.

“I’m going to stab you in the side today.”

“Abigail, detour and attack her from behind.”

“Don’t order.”

The three of them, covered in dirt, stand up and try to run, but stop and stare blankly behind Rai.

Rai, who had been snapping her fingers while laughing, followed their gaze and turned around to see Elbert.

It’s a barrier that anyone can enter, but you shouldn’t recklessly enter it during sparring.

It’s not simply because it’s dangerous, it’s a story related to courtesy.

“Oh, what happened? Huh? I didn’t do anything today? Did the deputy principal call me again?”

She is not even close to her, but when she sees Elbert, Rai suspects Bright and asks him.

Elbert looks at him with cold eyes and creates a magic circle.

As a complex magic circle rises behind him, Rai takes a look at the magic circle, tilts his head, and then looks at Elbert.

“……?”

“Let go.”

“Yes?”

“Let it go.”

At the forced words, Rai looked at him quietly and turned his gaze toward Aslan.

At the academy students’ gesture of shaking their heads and saying they don’t know, Rai turns his gaze back to Albert and points at the magic circle with his finger.

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The magic circle is destroyed in an instant, and the fragmented mana flies away in the air.

“Okay? But why did you do this?”

Although it was the best magic circle he could make with a triple camouflage spell and even a protective spell, Albert, who had been watching Lai, who had solved it without a moment’s hesitation, sighed and turned around.

“What? What’s wrong with you?”

“Isn’t that right? The magic circle is broken.”

“Why is that?”

At Aslan’s words, Rai said as if he didn’t understand.

“Hey… Do you remember the fight I had with Instructor Albert?”

“Huh? Hmmm… Was it?”

While going to the city with Hana, Aslan sighs as Rai, who had forgotten the conversation with Albert, only blinked.

The academy is buzzing about the match, but the person involved is unaware.

“Rather than that, let’s prepare for your martial arts competition.”

“Isn’t that more important than that?”

“Didn’t you just do that? It’s over.”

Aslan and Filia look at him with pitiful eyes.

But when Rai started attacking, they had to move their hands and feet without thinking.